Budding and grafting tape



' May 24, 1932- P. B. LHOMMEESIEU 1,860,255

BUDDING AND GRAFTING TAPE Filed April 22, 1 2929 Q E. LHU MLD EU,

Patented May 24, 1932 U'Ni TED ST TES" ,w W i PAIGE 'IB. LHOMMEDIEU, on NEW BRUNSWICK, ew JERSEY, ASSIGNOR', 'IO JOHNSON & JOHNSON, or NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, A COBPORA'QDION on EW JERSEY BUDDING AND GRAETING- TLAIE Application filed April 22,

The invention is addressed to grafting, budding and other problems of thenurseryman.

There has been a manifest failure of materials heretofore proposed to meet nursery re-' mild. Yet, the wrapper of the old practice andhealing and of affording a firm support I g p v or no absorbent quality,and having an ad hesive surface 6. A roll of tape is shown in is rapidly deteriorated in the fall and pro longed in the spring,the reverse of the actual requirements. v

The desi'der'atum is to provide grafting and budding tape in form. convenient for facile application; which shallbe sun-proof,

moisture and weatherproof, and proof aga nst insects, vermm orimfection; which shall be, capable of promoting cell growth for'the part of the plant-to which it is applied; which shall comprise' a band or foundation cloth that is close woven, flexible and non-absorbent, and a gum spread of pure vegetable origin and comparatively thin and so constituted that adhesion is immediate and complete on plant bark'as soon as applied,

and withal having the adhesive property so. a V

such nature that while consistently thin, it 1 wil-lbeairtight andpossessed of plant wound healing properties, and. it must'respond to tempered that adhesion although instant and permanent is yet of such nature as tov enable easy pulling off without injury to the most tender bark; which shall possess, all of i the essentials required in the transferring and sealing of the budrwith due regard to 'minimum exposure of the cambiums'to air and to the maintenance of constant and uni- 'form pressure so as to insure perfect contact of the two cambium layers-and non-disturbance of the bud patch onthe, stock during the period ofadhesion of the two cambiums; to

provide an all vegetable; gum 'tape possessed of health giving properties and all oftheattributes recited and which will permit slipinalseal, nor disturb the original pressure;

and to provide industrial tape of the nature u and other shelters.

bodying the invention.

1929.- Serial No. 357,319.-

stated that is" economies in that it provides a complete wrapper which obviates: the use of the customary adjuncts, such as wgax'cloth scope of the invention will be more readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, wherein F gure 1 shows a roll of ndustrialtape cm- Fig. 2 is a more or vlew to indicate the close Woven characteristic of the foundation fabric is contrast with;

the open weave of ordinarycloth. v

Fig. ,3 is an edge view of-a section of the improved tape, r

Figs. 4, 5 and are illustrative of how the new tape adapts itself tos'ervice in budding operations. 7 i v According to the invention, the improved tape comprises close woven muslin or. other fabric 5, having inherentircsiliency and little Fig. 1, and it has a hollow coreor center 7 so fthatit may be slung on a string carried over the shoulder orattached to asuspender strap ry on in the nursery work, i A I The adhesive or gum spread should beof slitting soa s tocompensatefor stock expansion without disturbing the bud wrapping.

Hence, the invention contemplates a weath- I v "erproof, moisture proof,- verminproofadhe sive spreadorcoatingpossessed of the attri-r butes' stated, and derived from vegetable sources' Aicompo'sition that has proved markedly .eiiicient consists of gumv elastica' combined with resins fromfPic ea cwcelsa, J Pen/us australzs, gum. ollbanum, and wax The addition of orris or other vegetablefiller gives the compound the desired firmness and 1 consistency.

less diagrammatical In; preparing abatch of the coniiposi'tiori' I I'blendthe followingingredients=in substan tially the proportions stated, gum elastica, 

